How competitive is Teach for America?

Buba001
Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:59:38 +0000

I have slightly under a 3.4 GPA and I got rejected at the first stage.

I don’t think the rejection is due to GPA but more so to the point and purpose of applying to Teach for America in the written essay.

Of course I went to a Tier 2 ranked school instead of a Tier 1 ranked school so I could have got rejected because or the amount of applicants applying from Tier 1 schools(Which is probably going to happen a lot more in my future).

I went on study abroad for five months, but I’m not sure this would have any influence on being accepted.